Digital work, judged on the writing and the craft — not the platform.
APEX is entering its 39th year. Websites, video, podcasts, social campaigns, apps and virtual events account for 684 of its awards since 2020 — 140 Grand Awards across 236 organizations.
See who has wonEvery organization below has won at least one APEX award since 2020. Win counts are totals across all categories.
Also among the winners: CESAS Medical · So Drama! Entertainment · American Battlefield Trust · Logical Innovations Inc. at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center · 911MEDIA · IUPUI · Sandia National Laboratories · Active Voice Communications · Magic EdTech · National League for Nursing · AFCEA International · American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons · American Society for Dermatologic Surgery · CARF International · Imprint · The Brookings Institution · AARP · Aao-Hns
APEX is judged on the work, not the size of the team behind it. The organizations above are the ones you are most likely to recognize, but awards go every year to independent publishers, one-person communications departments, freelancers, small agencies and volunteer-run societies — every entry is judged against the same criteria, whoever submits it.
Most digital awards reward the interface. APEX rewards the communication: whether the writing holds up, whether the structure serves the reader, whether the thing is genuinely good rather than merely current. Judges have applied that test to more than 1,500 websites, videos, podcasts and social campaigns since 2020 — which is why an APEX win for digital work travels further than a platform-specific prize.
APEX is not a digital award. It is a communications and publishing award that digital teams win — which is exactly what makes it worth entering. Your work is not judged against a small pool of peers who share your constraints and your vocabulary. It is judged on writing, design, editing and editorial excellence against annual reports, magazines, campaigns and websites from every field APEX covers. Win here and you have two things at once: standing with the people who know your subject, and independent proof that your team can hold its own as communicators anywhere.
A cross-section of digital work that has won, one entry per organization. Links go to the entrant's own published work where it is still available.
Entries for the 39th Annual APEX Awards open Nov 11 at 11:11 a.m. ET and close February 26, 2027. Join the list and we will email you the moment they do — along with your 10% digital discount code.
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Entries open Nov 11 at 11:11 a.m. ET · deadline February 26, 2027